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Lagoacho – Covão do Urso

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  • Lagoacho – Covão do Urso

  • Centro

  • Seia

  • Serra da Estrela Nature Park

  • No

  • Access from:

    - Manteigas (± 18 km) - N232, turn left into Vale do Rossim. Pass Vale do Rossim and continue;

    - Seia (± 19 km) - N339, without passing through Sabugeiro. Follow the signs Manteigas / Penhas Douradas. Continue on N232 towards Manteigas. Turn left into Vale do Rossim. Pass Vale do Rossim and continue.

     

    The geosite is on a valley before the Lagoacho dam.

    GPS: 40.3911111, -7.6166667

  • See here the biggest lateral moraine (almost 4 km) in Portugal on the NE slope of Covão do Urso, a succession of sets of "glacier bolt and coals" and enjoy the landscape of a typical glacier valley with U shape. Covão do Urso is a cirque glacier that is an amphitheater-shaped basin with steep walls, formed on a mountainside by glacial erosion.

     

    Cirque glacier - amphitheatre-shaped basin with steep walls, formed on a mountainside by glacial erosion.

    Glacier - mass of ice formed by the recrystallization of snow that flows forward, or has flowed at some time in the past.

    Glacier tongue - the lower, elongate part of a valley glacier.

    Moraine – rock accumulation deposited primarily by the direct action of a glacier.

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